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...the least con- cern. I question much whether we may not, by natural means, account for the success of knaves, the calamities of fools, with all the mi... ...ace: “For as to your being without your coat, sir,” says he, “I can easily account for that; and, indeed, dress is the least part which distin- guishe... ...ees, and here he hath lain ever since.” Booth exprest great horror at this account, and declared, if he had only so much money in his pocket, he would... ...d, saying, with an air of indig- nation, “That she was not come thither on account of pov- erty.” The keeper no sooner viewed the purse than his fea- ... ...d retain a certain sum in her hands which 66 Amelia she would at any time deposit for my advancement in the army. “You will, I hope, madam, conceive ... ...d to be ready, and galloped away from that house where all my treasure was deposited. “Thus, madam, I have, in obedience to your commands, run through... ..., with great sagacity and slyness, that he knew where fifty pound might be deposited to much advantage. Booth answered that he would very readily adva... ...is money; and it will be only a little while I am con- vinced; for, if you deposit this sum in the great man’s hands, I make no doubt but you will suc... ... to go immedi- ately to the pawnbroker whither she had gone before, and to deposit her picture for what she could raise upon it. She then immediately ...

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...TION—(1829) The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of Waverley is founded. They ha... ...e the moment when she was unobserved, and steal into the thicket, when she deposited whatever small store of provisions she had in charge at some mark... ...hment short of ignominy, and the neces- sity of giving a cold and composed account of the ideal world in which he lived the better part of his days, I... ...ed vexa- tion gave rise to many poohs and pshaws, which were placed to the account of an incipient fit of gout, until, having sent for the Army List, ... ... averley-Honour, was reimbursed of the expenditure which he had outlaid on account of the house of Bradwardine. It concerned, he said, the credit of h... ... themselves. A wigwam was erected al- most in an instant, where Edward was deposited on a couch of heather. The surgeon, or he who assumed the office,... ...w on the field, were bound on a distant ex- pedition, and that when he had deposited him in the house of a gentleman, who he was sure would pay him ev... ... intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket, or spleuchan, as he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob; and then, as if he conceived the benevo- l... ...rm, and, with an emphatic nod, pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly deposited under it, in the lining of his jacket. W averley thought he had m...

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...a fault, unless a preference to moun- tain-dew over less potent liquors be accounted one. He be- lieved as firmly in the story, as in any part of his ... ...f his creed. A grave and elderly person, according to old John MacKinlay’s account, while travelling in the wilder parts of Galloway, was benighted. W... ...nute have been long removed from the mortal sphere. Having thus given some account of the first idea, or rude 12 Guy Mannering sketch, of the story, ... ... hills, adjoin- ing to the English Border. The author gave the public some account of this remarkable person, in one of the early num- bers of. Blackw... ... from the cliffs. We shall briefly detail some of these. The body had been deposited in a neighbouring fisher- hut, but without altering the condition... ...ptian patriarchs on that memorable occasion. The Sheriff received also the depositions of the unfortu- nate father and his servant, concerning what ha... ...ace in his hands the treasure of which he had thus unexpectedly become the depositary, tell- ing, at the same time, his own remarkable story. But a mo... ...forget that you are the chosen of my heart, in whose faithful bosom I have deposited every feeling which your poor Julia dares to acknowledge to herse... ...sually attended his custom- ers. Mrs. MacCandlish then produced the parcel deposited with her by Brown, in which was found the gipsy’s purse. On perce...

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...iss Bertram. I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorise in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards the... ...ter came and passed without their being called 30 Mansfield Park for; the accounts continued perfectly good; and Mrs. Norris, in promoting gaieties f... ...larms or embarrassments. As to her cousins’ gaieties, she loved to hear an account of them, especially of the balls, and whom Edmund had danced with; ... ...e final arrangement by him- self Tom arrived safely, bringing an excellent account of his father’s health; but to very little purpose, as far as Mrs. ... ...t without their use: it was all in harmony; and as everything will turn to account when love is once set going, even the sandwich tray, and Dr. Grant ... ... before. CHAPTER XXVII On reaching home Fanny went immediately upstairs to deposit this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in s...

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...ebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. ... ...pping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenacious... ...ary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is... ...sterious halo of family confidences, of which he is known to be the silent depository. There are noble mausoleums rooted for centuries in retired glad... ... that I some times heard Miss Donny and her sister mention how regular my accounts were paid, and about twice a year I ventured to write a similar le... ...articular now, ain’t it, miss?” He seemed quite de lighted with it on my account. “The fog is very dense indeed!” said I. “Not that it affects you, ... ...of gas, burning so sullenly above the iron gate, on which the poisoned air deposits its witch ointment slimy to the touch! It is well that you should ... ... Guards as an applicant for an ensign’s commission; the purchase money was deposited at an agent’s; and Richard, in his usual char 335 Bleak House –... ...ess with which Mr. Squod, like a genie, catches him up, chair and all, and deposits him on the hearth stone. “O Lord!” says Mr. Smallweed, panting. “O...

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...its least useful one. God bless that stewardess for her piously fraudulent account of January voyages! God bless her for her clear recollection of the... ...lly disqualified from devoting themselves to any useful pur suit, on that account) are so often and so unexpectedly and summarily cut off, and reinst... ...ion, and ten for the second. ‘After the first year,’ say the trustees, ‘an account current will be opened with each pupil; he will be charged with the... ... sure. I have extracted a few disjointed fragments of her history, from an account, written by that one man who has made her what she is. It is a very... ...ept the mud, which in some parts was almost knee deep, and might have been deposited there, on the subsiding of the waters after the Deluge. In one pl... ...and pattens. More over, there were places in the mill in which they could deposit these things without injury; and there were conveniences for washin... ...ly, 1841, no fewer than nine hundred and seventy eight of these girls were depositors in the Lowell Savings Bank: the amount of whose joint savings wa... ...of the departments, among a collec tion of rare and curious articles, are deposited the pre sents which have been made from time to time to the Amer... ...ere is nothing else to put my clothes American Notes – Dickens 138 on, I deposit them upon the ground: not without soil ing my hands, for it is in ...

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... the rest of mankind, in respect of this its ancient origin, is taken into account. It is remarkable that as there was, in the oldest family of which ... ...ery lady and gentleman who has a part in the game, will go in on their own account and bowl away, to the best of their ability, at the testator’s wick... ...ted;’ one of his ornamental sentences; ‘nor will I, upon the other, on any account compromise my common understanding as a man, by making the assertio... ...ircumstances of failure and disappointment. CHAPTER FIVE CONTAINING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE INSTALLATION OF MR PECKSNIFF’S NEW PUPIL INTO THE BOSOM OF M... ...ike the dove of old, my dear Martin— and it will be a week before we again deposit our olive-branches in the passage. When I say olive-branches,’ obse... ... while. When he had shaped it to his liking, he took out his old plug, and deposited the same on the back of the seat between Mark and Martin, while h... ...n every one of Mr Crimple’s joints, sir, there is more or less of the same deposit. Very good. If Mr Crimple neglects his meals, or fails to take his ... ...ith particular care. Mr Bailey squinted at every successive dab, as it was deposited on a cloth on his left shoulder, and seemed, with a micro- scopic... ...hich lasted all day long. In good time for the evening coach, Miss Charity deposited her housekeep- ing keys with much ceremony upon the parlour table...

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... what the old man had said, and of his looks and bearing, the less I could account for what I had seen and heard. I had a strong misgiving that his ni... ...‘You’re as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you’re saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives wi... ...Curiosity Shop – Dickens 32 linger, especially when there are taken into account the additional inducements of fresh butter, new bread, shrimps, and... ...y shocked and professed that she would rather die. Mr Swiveller heard this account with a degree of admiration not altogether consistent with the proj... ...ircumstances a source of extreme delight, only to be surpassed by its safe depository in his own personal pockets. Although Mr List and Mr Jowl ad dr... ..., and calling upon the company there assembled to make way for God’s sake, deposited it on a chair before the fire. The company, who rose in confusion... ...f up in his Bachelor’s Hall, which, by reason of its newly erected chimney deposit ing the smoke inside the room and carrying none of it off, was not... ...ht from four of the city’s gates, and thither in secret brought, and there deposited; and the bachelor did further (being highly excited at such times... ...nor nobody will. I wish I could doubt the evidence of my senses, but their depositions are unimpeachable. It’s of no use cross examining my eyes, ’ cr...

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...o be some specimens of com mon English garden flowers, which could not be accounted for,—unless, perhaps, they had sprung from some English maiden’s ... ...itors were ever admit ted into the Doctor’s study, carried abroad strange accounts of the squalor of dust and cobwebs in which the learned and scient... ...everest censors in that department that was ever known. It is difficult to account for this; although it is almost invariably found that persons in a ... ...he has seen, and what his great grandfa ther saw before him, is of little account since newspapers came up. Stop—I remember—no, I forget,—it was some... ...ng and printing (with a dedication to the Medical Society of the State) an account of the process of distilling balm from cobwebs; the bequest being w... ...remembered the secret niche in the wall, where he had once seen the Doctor deposit some papers. He looked, and there they were. Who was the heir of th...

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...aste; and yet he seems to have outlived the time of danger. One last example: syphilis has been plausibly credited with much of the sterility. But the... ...he easily obtains pre-eminent authority; the king be- comes his Mairedupalais; he can proscribe, he can com- mand; and the temptation is ever towards ... ... not the Polynesian always un- chaste? Doubtless he was so always: doubtless he is more so since the coming of his remarkably chaste visitors from Eur... ...h a vote for a Conseiller-General at Tahiti, they probably conceived themselves upon the path to popularity; and so far from that, they were revolting... ...me—which signified, if I remember exactly, Prince Born Among Flowers—fell in abeyance, and he was dubbed instead by the expressive byword, Taipi- Kiki... ...ed, and the golden age (whatever it quite was) came to an end. It is the strongest proof of Father Dordillon’s prestige that it survived, seemingly wi... ...urner’s, which I was allowed to consult at Malua, I came on one damning evidence: on the island of Onoatoa the punishment for theft was to be killed a... ...t) was not merely the adornment of his age, but a substantial piece of prop- erty. One hundred dollars was the estimated value; and as Brother Michel ...

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... up his ac- counts himself, and never knocked off a farthing from anyone’s account, but never asked more than his due. The visitors did not talk to hi... ... then the matter should not be made public. Lizaveta Prohorovna received a deposit of a hundred roubles and two hundred went to Kirillovna for her ass... ...tly that she instantly saw what was the matter, took him by the collar and deposited him in a suitable place. He slept in the lumber room, however, ve... ...um Ivanitch,” Akim repeated, “listen: I am to blame; I wanted to settle my accounts with you myself; but God must be the judge between us. You have ta... ...aiming the money back from him,” Akim replied grimly, “we have settled our accounts.” Avdotya was amazed. “How is that?” “Why, like this. Do you know,... ...om him they would converse in German in his pres- ence. Emilie gave him no account of her doings and replied to his questions in an offhand way as tho... ...hout delay, I told him all that had hap- pened. The old man listened to my account and did not drop one word, simply shook his head. Then he sat down ...

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... a monarchical writer a public homage which may, per- haps, be valuable on account of its rarity. *The name of the man who tried this experiment at Ba... ..., but Charles X. left him governor of a province. The power of the many is accountable to no one; the power of one is com- pelled to render account to... ...e two great difficulties of her career, it is necessary to give a succinct account of her preceding life, from the point of view of impartial criticis... ... house, when, his commerce being at that time enormous, he settled all his accounts with Asia, the Levant, and Europe before beginning that great atte... ...n one volume only, or one thousand. Here is a contemporaneous and succinct account of the meeting of Clement VII. and the king of France: “His Holines... ...IE TOUCHET THE LITTLE HOUSE of Madame de Belleville, where Charles IX. had deposited his prisoners, was the last but one in the rue de l’Autruche on t... ...highest of all the occult sci- ences, which holds within it, as a precious deposit the fruits of the studies of each generation. In it lay the tie tha...

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...t likely to be misunderstood by Professors of the Roman Catholic faith, on account of anything con tained in these pages. I have done my best, in one... ...hal than I, who, in the shadow of his portly presence, dwindled down to no account at all. There was, of course, very little in the aspect of Paris—as... ...dismayed! The wonderful novelty of everything, the unusual smells, the un accountable filth (though it is reckoned the cleanest of Ital ian towns), ... ... Italian customs, of being recognised as a means of establishing a current account with Heaven, on which to draw, too easily, for future bad actions, ... ...small parties; each 53 Charles Dickens party chanting nasally, on its own account, without refer ence to any other, and producing a most dismal resu... ...he same blind men, rattling little pots like kitchen pepper castors: their depositories for alms; the same preposterous crowns of silver stuck upon th... ..., we went to see the Pope convey the Sacrament from the Sistine chapel, to deposit it in the Capella 141 Charles Dickens Paolina, another chapel in t...

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...re, Dauphin, tell me what that is!” says this magnificent old lady, as she deposits her queen very quietly and folds her arms. “I should be sorry to u... ...to be dug by the White Thorn, because his mother’s set her heart on it, on account of a dream as she had; an’ they’d ha’ come theirselves to ask you, ... ...equate effect. Miss Anne, indeed, if her chronic headaches could have been accounted for by a pathetic story of disappointed love, might have had some... ...ery full of his jokes,” and was a great favourite throughout the estate on account of his free manners. Every tenant was quite sure things would be di... ...breth- ren and sisters watch for each other’s souls as they that must give account. They don’t go every one his own way and say, ‘Am I my brother’s ke... ... and everything about me, and lose myself in thoughts that I could give no account of, for I could neither make a beginning nor ending of them in word... ...ours of a sudden sorrow, when the poor human soul is like one who has been deposited sleeping among the ruins of a vast city, and wakes up in dreary a... ... don’t believe Ganymede cried when the eagle carried him away, and perhaps deposited him on Jove’s shoulder at the end. Totty smiled down complacently...

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...is stale and uneatable. But it has no sooner done this than it has to take account of a process—from which only when it’s the basest of the ser- vants... ...h ciphering, of sorts, as would merit the highest sal- ary paid to a chief accountant. Not, however, that the chief accountant hasn’t his gleams of bl... ...ess-box by counsel for the prosecu- tion, in other words satisfactorily to account for Strether and for his “peculiar tone,” was to possess myself of ... ...lse”—these inductive steps could only be as rapid as they were distinct. I accounted for everything— and “everything” had by this time become the most... ...if he’ll pull himself together and come home, all the same, he’ll find his account in it.” She had listened with all her interest. “And I hope to good... ...s problem at the door very much as if it had been the copper piece that he deposited, on the threshold, in the receptacle of the in- veterate blind be... ...im. This alternative was for a few minutes so sharp that if he at last did deposit his missive it was per- haps because the pressure of the place had ...

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...Secret Agent the legs inside them did not, as a general rule, seem of much account either. With their hands plunged deep in the side pock- ets of thei... ...of course, but from whom? Artists—art critics and such like - people of no account. Nobody minds what they say. But there is learning—science. Any imb... ... erable. Those are the fanatics. The remaining portion of social rebels is accounted for by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the co... ...ross the room swiftly, and the door closed upon her white form. Mr V erloc deposited the cash-box on the night table, and began the operation of undre... ...ry much creased. The reports had come in: every anarchist had been exactly accounted for. After saying this he lowered his eyes, signed rapidly two si... ...ng useful from Greenwich,” he added. The Chief Inspector began at once the account of his inves- tigation in a clear matter-of-fact manner. His superi... ...at all this had been done directly the old woman had come forward with her deposition. And he mentioned the name of a station. “That’s where they came... ...he park. Fifteen minutes ought to have been enough for the veriest fool to deposit the engine and walk away. And the Pro- fessor had guaranteed more t... ...member now! He didn’t bank in his own name. He told me once that it was on deposit in the name of Prozor.” “Y ou are sure?” “Certain.” “Y ou don’t thi...

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...-parties than herself. As her social talents, backed by Mr. Trenor’s bank- account, almost always assured her ultimate triumph in such competitions, s... ...e pleases. But she doesn’t 42 House of Mirth dare lose her hold of him on account of the money, and so when he isn’t jealous she pretends to be.” Mis... ...ll means,” she said smiling; “perhaps I can get a tip out of him on my own account.” Trenor paused abruptly, and his eyes fixed themselves on hers wit... ...led the packet; then she opened the wardrobe, drew out a despatch-box, and deposited the letters within it. As she did so, it struck her with a flash ... ... to light the drawing-room lamps and extract her best silver from the Safe Deposit vaults. Mrs. Peniston’s rare entertainments were preceded by days o... .... In fact, people are in- 118 House of Mirth clined to excuse her on that account—” “To excuse her for what?” “For being hard up—and accepting attent... ... deemed it her duty to avoid. But there remained in her thoughts a settled deposit of resentment against her niece, all the denser because it was not ... ... a well-kept family vault, in which the last corpse had just been decently deposited. 207 Edith Wharton IN GERTY FARISH’S SITTING-ROOM, whither a han... ...rs statuette. Lily sat down on one of the plush and rosewood sofas, and he deposited himself in a rocking-chair draped with a starched antimacassar wh...

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...e and speak and behave, always in the setting I have found for them, is my account of them—of which I dare say, alas, que cela manque souvent d’archit... ...e objects confided to him, is conscious of the rare little “piece” left in deposit by the reduced, mysterious lady of title or the speculative ama- te... ...ment they are considered at all. There is always the escape from any close account of the weak agent of such spells by using as a bridge for evasion, ... ...eneral form of that earnest quest. And I find indeed that this is the only account I can give myself of the evolution of the fable it is all under the... ...s cheek and lighted up his humorous eye as he at last slowly and carefully deposited his big tea-cup upon the table. He was neatly dressed, in well-br... ...d! Have you arrived with my mother?” “Yes, half an hour ago.” “And has she deposited you and departed again?” “No, she went straight to her room, and ... .... There was no need of writing, for she should attach no importance to any account of them she should elicit by letter; she believed, always, in see- ... ...Isabel capable of anything. She listened with great interest to the girl’s account of Mrs. Touchett’s appearance and in the evening prepared to comply... ...o Isabel when they sometimes walked together to the village post-office to deposit Madame Merle’s offering to the mail. She knew more people, as she t...

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...f of the other pictures are Magdalens, Flights into Egypt, Crucifix- ions, Depositions from the Cross, Pietas, Noli-me-tangeres, or the Sacrifice of A... ...You see an aisle, or a transept; you see the nave, or the tribune; but, on account of its ponder- ous piers and other obstructions, it is only by this... ...hich here melted away into the vast sunny breadth, and were of no separate account. Yet each contributed its little all towards the grandeur of the wh... ...of friendship, in which we once voluntarily engage, ought to be severed on account of any unworthiness, which we subsequently detect in our friend. Fo... ...- ways been placed on a table there. He knew that it was Hilda’s custom to deposit her letters in this desk, as well as other little objects of which ... ...ns that had once been princely chambers, and open to the daylight; but, on account of some wickedness there per- petrated, each passing age had thrown... ...il, so treacherous, so vile, and yet so strangely subtle, as could only be accounted for by the insanity which often develops itself in old, close-kep...

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...r matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proporti... ...d four daughters. One married an Edinburgh writer, as I have it on a first account – a minister, according to another – a man at least of reasonable s... ...rs were set open to create a thor- ough draught, and the patient was on no account to be dis- turbed. Thus, then, did Fleeming pass the whole of that ... ...ncy of a wretched old peasant who watches the end of the line here. A long account of breakages in the Atlantic trial trip. T o-night we grapple for t... ...est all deep or brilliant green. Large herds of cattle browse on the baked deposit at the foot of these large crags. One or two half-savage herdsmen i... ...specimen had then crossed the At- lantic – but a copy of the Times with an account of it was at hand, and by the help of this we made a phonograph whi...